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Something is alive in The Funhouse!
The carnival is a place for fun and laughter, but not for Amy and her friends. When their childish dare to stay all night in the spooky funhouse backfires, it leaves a trail of dismembered teenagers a mile long in Tobe Hooper s classic video nasty era slasher.
Will anyone escape the clutches of the stumbling madman that stalks to sideshow? Is there no end to the carnival barkers chilling sadism? The only way to find out is ascend into the funhouse, where the games have no rules and the only prize on offer is a grisly demise.
Join us in The Funhouse. So much fun that you ll never leave...Alive!
THIS BLU-RAY EDITION CONTAINS
- Brand new transfer of the film in glorious High Definition (1080p)
- 4 panel reversible sleeve options with original and newly commissioned artwork
- Double-sided fold-out artwork poster
- Collector s booklet featuring brand new writing on the film by critic and author Kim Newman
- Audio commentary with The Funhouse S/FX wizard Craig Reardon and Jeffrey Reddick (creator of The Final Destination series)
- Audio commentary with producer Derek Power and genre scholar Howard S. Bergman
- Audio commentary with Justin Kerswell, author of Teenage Wasteland and host of the slasher cinema website Hysteria Lives, and author Calum Waddell
- Stuck in the Funhouse with director Tobe Hooper
- Carnage at the Carnival: Tobe Hooper Remembers The Funhouse
- Miles of Mayhem: Acting in Tobe s Funhouse with star Miles Chapin
- A Trilogy of Terror: The Make-up Madness of Craig Reardon, the S/FX wizard recollects his collaborations with Tobe Hooper; Eaten Alive , Poltergeist and The Funhouse
- Master Class of Horror: Mick Garris, the director of Sleepwalkers and The Shining reflects on the crimson-covered career of his longtime colleague Tobe Hooper
- Live Q&A with Tobe Hooper from San Francisco
- Never before seen behind the scenes photographs from the collection of Craig Reardon
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The Guardian
Best label 2011
Arrow
"It's often the smaller-funded labels that do the best work. Arrow has released marvellous discs of many of cinema's classics, such as Bicycle Thieves, Rififi and Les Diaboliques, but it's for their horror releases that they truly excel. The more respectable directors like George A Romero and Dario Argento get their due here, but Arrow also pull out all the stops for such (unfairly) lesser regarded Gore-teurs as Lucio Fulci and Frank Henenlotter. Blu-rays of Fulci classics The Beyond and City Of The Living Dead show that the films are far more atmospheric and better made than they ever appeared before, and for Henenlotter (with the imminent Frankenhooker disc) you get extensive extras that cover the rarely examined scene of low-budget New York film-makers and the lost grindhouses of Times Square and 42nd Street."
--The Guardian
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Adrian Drew
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This movie is better than people give it credit for. The atmospheric build-up is fascinating. The shots of the carnival really capture a weird and incestuous world which only becomes totally apparent on a second viewing. Hooper really knows his stuff and the ideas contained in this piece are quite remarkable as is the notion of multiple casting of some of the characters. Watch it once - and its interesting - watch it twice and you can see the real skill of the film maker.
The blu ray transfer is excellent and the sound quality fine too. Perhaps a little tame for modern audiences - although there is one shockingly distasteful sequence - still Funhouse is a movie you won't easily forget. I love the reason it was banned for so many years is that the "censor" confused it with another film with a similar word in the strap-line. Such was the imbicility of the BBFC in days gone by! Now of course they pass everything with ludicrously low age ratings. Well I suppose you can't have everything.
The blu ray transfer is excellent and the sound quality fine too. Perhaps a little tame for modern audiences - although there is one shockingly distasteful sequence - still Funhouse is a movie you won't easily forget. I love the reason it was banned for so many years is that the "censor" confused it with another film with a similar word in the strap-line. Such was the imbicility of the BBFC in days gone by! Now of course they pass everything with ludicrously low age ratings. Well I suppose you can't have everything.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Rory
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
i think tobe hooper's chainsaw massacre is overrated. i think his recent output has been awful at best. this little gem from 1981 took me by surprise, not just for its minimum bloodletting but because i'd never heard of it. its good - its better than good. it has a genuine sense of dread and a fear and paradoxically, an understanding of human vulnerability and mutation.
like chainsaw massacre, this challenges our perception of physical appearance and those who live outside the perceived 'norm'.
this also manages to be terrific excercise in suspense and homage (referencing among other things, todd brown's freaks and hitchcocks psycho). it works as a straight ahead horror and also as social commentary in a way that the best horror movies do.
why have you never heard of it? you tell me...
like chainsaw massacre, this challenges our perception of physical appearance and those who live outside the perceived 'norm'.
this also manages to be terrific excercise in suspense and homage (referencing among other things, todd brown's freaks and hitchcocks psycho). it works as a straight ahead horror and also as social commentary in a way that the best horror movies do.
why have you never heard of it? you tell me...
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By S. C. Rocha
Format:Blu-ray
Tobe Hooper made this film after the success of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). After an aborted project (Eaten Alive, 1977) and a telefilm (Salem's Lot, 1981). The film shows a sure directorial skill that would fade little by little after his Lifeforce (1985). The film revolves around a group of teenagers who decides to spend the night inside a dark ride (The Funhouse) and witness a murder between two members of the circus. After this they are hunted by the by the deformed killer and his father and... well, the rest is the usual nerve wrecking scenes. This film had a huge mark on me when I watched it in television in my infancy, I remembered it for long time and unfortunately it was rare to show on TV and since I didn't had a VCR I couldn't watch it anywhere, when I got older I imported it on DVD, which is the copy I own. After a gap of some 15 years, the film still has the sinister mood of my recollection. It is sad that Hooper career followed a downward spiral, none of his films has the force of TTCM, though he came close in Funhouse and with Poltergeist (1982).
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The Funhouse
An old film,but it is a classic.... this is what Horror films were made for,..to scare people and this is exactly what you get in this film.... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. G. Bevan
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE FUNHOUSE BLU-RAY U.K. RELEASE
forget the original DVD release by Universal, it sucks big time
if your big fan of Tobe hooper films then you already know the plot to the Funhouse and what the film is... Read more
if your big fan of Tobe hooper films then you already know the plot to the Funhouse and what the film is... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ben30
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just creepy good old school horror
Stable video image. No macro-blocking to speak of. Arrow did a fantastic on the restoration and the sound. The Funhouse never looked or has sounded better. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Bobby Player
1.0 out of 5 stars
Pray to get out...of watching this tripe
I saw this as a teenager in the USA when it was first released, and ( my bad luck) couldn't remember much of it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Wee Rascal
2.0 out of 5 stars
NOT TOBE HOOPERS BEST
NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS FILM UNTIL THE END, AND ITS NOT WORTH THE WAIT, ITS BORING, AND I DONT CLASS IT AS A SLASHER
Published 4 months ago by D.POWELL
2.0 out of 5 stars
Big let down
I wasn't to sure what to expect with this? but it was a huge let down and was lacking in every dept, expected more from tobe! Read more
Published 4 months ago by keith
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hooper House Of Horror
Hooper's over rated variation on Texas Chainsaw, which was a variation on The Old Dark House, is not much fun at all for the first hour...slow, indifferently acted & scripted. Read more
Published 6 months ago by George W. Iscariot
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good fun movie presented superbly
The movie itself is a pretty good representation of early 80's horror. Standard fair with a little more flair than some of it's counterparts of this time. Read more
Published 6 months ago by M. Crossman
4.0 out of 5 stars
"..80'S CLASSIC HORROR.."
This is a pretty good horror from the 80s from the director of the original Texas chainsaw massacre! Read more
Published 12 months ago by S. Drury
4.0 out of 5 stars
'Something is alive in the Funhouse....'
A creepy and enjoyable film, The Funhouse shared a double bill in 1981 with My Bloody Valentine.
No gore to be found here, and what once was an 'X' film now comes in for a... Read more
No gore to be found here, and what once was an 'X' film now comes in for a... Read more
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